Renewal fails with duckdns: DNS problem: server failure at resolver looking up A

My domain is: wolkje.duckdns.org

I ran this command:

certbot certonly --nginx -v -d wolkje.duckdns.org --dry-run --key-type rsa

It produced this output:

Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx
/snap/certbot/4182/lib/python3.12/site-packages/certbot/ocsp.py:238: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: Properties that return a naïve datetime object have been deprecated. Please switch to this_update_utc.
  if not response_ocsp.this_update:
/snap/certbot/4182/lib/python3.12/site-packages/certbot/ocsp.py:240: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: Properties that return a naïve datetime object have been deprecated. Please switch to this_update_utc.
  if response_ocsp.this_update > now + timedelta(minutes=5):
/snap/certbot/4182/lib/python3.12/site-packages/certbot/ocsp.py:242: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: Properties that return a naïve datetime object have been deprecated. Please switch to next_update_utc.
  if response_ocsp.next_update and response_ocsp.next_update < now - timedelta(minutes=5):
Certificate is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Simulating renewal of an existing certificate for wolkje.duckdns.org
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for wolkje.duckdns.org
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain wolkje.duckdns.org
http-01 challenge for wolkje.duckdns.org

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: nginx). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
  Domain: wolkje.duckdns.org
  Type:   dns
  Detail: DNS problem: server failure at resolver looking up A for wolkje.duckdns.org; DNS problem: server failure at resolver looking up AAAA for wolkje.duckdns.org

My web server is (include version): nginx 1.22.1-9

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Debian 12

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: (not applicable)

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know): yes

I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): no

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): 3.0.0

I suspect this is an issue with duckdns, but I'm not sure? I also get error messages here: wolkje.duckdns.org | DNSViz (I'm not sure what they mean exactly.) Is there a way I can solve the issue on my end? Thanks!

(I've closed the ports on my firewall for now.)

Hi @tovrstra,

Here is what Let’s Debug got https://letsdebug.net/wolkje.duckdns.org/2278519

And recently I’ve seen issues with DuckDNS Certbox shows a different TXT from dig - #4 by Bruce5051

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@Bruce5051 Thanks for the quick reply. I'll have to duck away then I guess.

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